Free activities to enhance your visit

Gallery activity guides

These activity guides focus on a specific gallery or theme. They can be printed as a booklet or as single pages.

Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter

Fossil Marine Reptiles Gallery

Discover pioneering palaeontologist Mary Anning and explore some of the fossils she found. 

Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Volcanoes and Earthquakes Gallery

Find out more about these ground-breaking natural events and how they shape our changing planet.

General activity worksheets

These resources can be used anywhere in the Museum and are suitable for Key Stages 1-3 (ages five-14). They link to a variety of curriculum themes such as literacy, art and science, and contain tips to help you prepare for and follow up your visit to the Museum.

Photo postcard

Draw your favourite exhibit then write about your trip to the Museum.

Suitable for Key Stages 1-2

Learning labels

Write your own exhibit labels to help people who are younger than you.

Suitable for upper Key Stage 1 - lower Key Stage 3

Museum trumps

Create a game based on animals you've seen at the Museum.

Suitable for upper Key Stage 1 - lower Key Stage 3

My own exhibition

Choose appropriate specimens for your own exhibition and explain your choice.

Suitable for Key Stages 1-3